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We recently ran into this Men’s Health article offering up “40 Unwritten Rules to Live By.” Leaving aside that they clearly aren’t unwritten anymore, we have to admit we’re a bit disappointed. Maybe they’ve been at this for long enough that all the good unwritten rules were already taken…

3) *Don't bluff more than once in a poker game with friends.* At that point, you might as well just play Parcheesi.

5) *Wear as much black as you can. It makes you look slimmer and cooler. But avoid black jeans.* We understand dumbing things down for a mass audience, but this is a bit excessive. Is Zinczenko a closet goth?

15) *Easy on the mayo!* How much mayonnaise a man consumes is nobody’s business but his own.

29) *Always imply, in every possible way, that the person you're talking to is smarter, better-looking, slimmer, and more successful than they really are.* Be careful with this one, or you’ll end up in a twenty-minute conversation about knitting.

32) *An ounce of appearance is worth a pound of substance.* Who’s to say they aren’t the same thing?